ktrain
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Ok cool cool, thank you for that info brother
What is your favorite fig?
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Figtex
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I REALLY like Exquisito. It’s the whole package! Mine is super productive and starts producing med-large figs mid-summer (July) and keeps going through the first frost. To me it has a fruit punch flavor—not a knock your socks off berry flavor—but GOOD. My whole family likes it. And it’s a healthy and vigorous variety. It’s a winner in my book. 
TorontoJoe
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I REALLY like Exquisito. It’s the whole package! Mine is super productive and starts producing med-large figs mid-summer (July) and keeps going through the first frost. To me it has a fruit punch flavor—not a knock your socks off berry flavor—but GOOD. My whole family likes it. And it’s a healthy and vigorous variety. It’s a winner in my book.
It’s a workhorse. I had to thin the figs off mine when it was young. It grew so many figs the plant wouldn’t w
figologist
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i have a one year old Exquisito that i put into a 10g pot in my greenhouse and it's churning them out. So excited.
DCallahan
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What's your favorite of the ones that you have found in your area?
figologist
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I-258, battaglia green, black mission, Bourjasotte green, Stella. Those are up there on my list
ETXfigs
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I thought that I read a post where someone said that Unknown Prosciutto is Toronto Joe's favorite fig. Am I mistaken, what's the real story?
ktrain
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I have a couple trees like that....very annoying.
superdave336
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I just started growing figs last year so don’t have much experience or tasting of different varieties. I will say no matter what variety I get none will ever mean as much or have as special place in my heart as my grandparents Celeste and Brown Turkey I was lucky to get cuttings from. Wish I had done it many years back when they were alive.
TorontoJoe
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I have a few favourite figs! I love U. Prosciutto... and some other... To name a single favourite is like asking which child you love the most.
Figless
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@Figgin' A VDB maybe my favorite fig variety as well. It's a super phenotype infinitely desirable.
rogerfwright
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Adriatic's and berry figs.
I’m very partial to the unk white and unk black I got from my buddy Gino. They survived a lot of abuse, planted in ground, moves, dig ups, complete die back, planted back into the ground and they both get brebas on occasion lol. The white is a more vigorous grower, it does get bland now and then but I don’t care. The unk black fig is also small but who cares. I like both these figs a lot because they came from a good friend.
The unk Celeste is a pretty fig imh, pics don’t do it justice. A nice sweet, basically seedless fig. Got this one from an old lady in my area.
These are my favorite figs and I would take them with me if I moved. It’s personal.
I like figs with a story, I can’t wait for Joe’s Jersey to take root and grow so I can compare to my Mt Etna.
These unk’s is basically why I bought cuttings and a couple of small tree’s. I kind of got tired not knowing exactly what I had if that makes sense. So, like any unorganized adult male would do, buy some cuttings and root them thinking I’d remember what what—well—guess what!!? We, at least me did not remember so now I have some cuttings that rooted that I’m not sure what’s what, what made it and what didn’t—so with time I’ll have to figure out what there in that regard—at least I kept notes and names in a book, my garden book.
The last batch of cuttings I labeled—so I’m good there!! No confusion lol.
So, unless some fig blows me away or takes on some unique shape I really like the first three figs just because they mean something.
I have a habit of every plant, or tree in my yard or my window, it takes on a personality.
Now if you said you can only take one plant it wouldn’t be any of the above—it would be a house plant that was given to me by my step father that I’ve had for maybe 28 years now. And yes, I’ve put this plant through hell too. This would be the one I’d take.
Here’s the pic of my unk Celeste, it’s just a beautiful fig
The unk Celeste is a pretty fig imh, pics don’t do it justice. A nice sweet, basically seedless fig. Got this one from an old lady in my area.
These are my favorite figs and I would take them with me if I moved. It’s personal.
I like figs with a story, I can’t wait for Joe’s Jersey to take root and grow so I can compare to my Mt Etna.
These unk’s is basically why I bought cuttings and a couple of small tree’s. I kind of got tired not knowing exactly what I had if that makes sense. So, like any unorganized adult male would do, buy some cuttings and root them thinking I’d remember what what—well—guess what!!? We, at least me did not remember so now I have some cuttings that rooted that I’m not sure what’s what, what made it and what didn’t—so with time I’ll have to figure out what there in that regard—at least I kept notes and names in a book, my garden book.
The last batch of cuttings I labeled—so I’m good there!! No confusion lol.
So, unless some fig blows me away or takes on some unique shape I really like the first three figs just because they mean something.
I have a habit of every plant, or tree in my yard or my window, it takes on a personality.
Now if you said you can only take one plant it wouldn’t be any of the above—it would be a house plant that was given to me by my step father that I’ve had for maybe 28 years now. And yes, I’ve put this plant through hell too. This would be the one I’d take.
Here’s the pic of my unk Celeste, it’s just a beautiful fig
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superdave336
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I agree, the story and history makes them special.
There's 4 of us, our mother told me "You're my favorite out of all my kids, I tell this to all you kids but you're really my favorite. Don't tell anyone!" Well, she didn't lie, she told all of us kids the same thing lol.I have a few favourite figs! I love U. Prosciutto... and some other... To name a single favourite is like asking which child you love the most.
AAAJacks
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So from what I've tried (which is only about 20) the good ones have been, JH Adriatic, Lynhurst White, Noir de Barbentane, Pied de Bouef.
The best ones were in some order:
1. Red Sicilian, very productive and sweet, nice berry flavor, medium size.
2. Navid's Unk Dark Greek, very similar to Red Sicilian but a little tighter eye and a little smaller fig.
3. Syrian Dark #2, also very productive extremely tight eye strong berry and moderately sweet, small fig.
4. Jack Lilly, sweet, moderate berry very nice balance, very tight eye, small fig.
5. NSDC, very sweet, nice berry, large eye and splits if there is much rain, large fig.
6. Negra de'Agde, not very sweet but a lot of berry flavor more than any other fig on the list, tight eye and moderate size VERY productive.
The best ones were in some order:
1. Red Sicilian, very productive and sweet, nice berry flavor, medium size.
2. Navid's Unk Dark Greek, very similar to Red Sicilian but a little tighter eye and a little smaller fig.
3. Syrian Dark #2, also very productive extremely tight eye strong berry and moderately sweet, small fig.
4. Jack Lilly, sweet, moderate berry very nice balance, very tight eye, small fig.
5. NSDC, very sweet, nice berry, large eye and splits if there is much rain, large fig.
6. Negra de'Agde, not very sweet but a lot of berry flavor more than any other fig on the list, tight eye and moderate size VERY productive.
TorontoJoe
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Gino’s figs sound like gems! Anything that can die to the ground, come back and produce is something to hold onto